Did Google Launches Local Highlight Icons & Hotel Price Labels?
So after some time testing both hotel pricing labels and local panel highlights, Google seems to have rolled out both features to searchers. Our man Sergey Alakov reported on both going live this week…
Google: Plan On Moving From M-Dot To Responsive? Do It Before Google’s Mobile First Index.
John Mueller of Google said the other day on a Google hangout on YouTube at the 25:16 mark that if you do plan on migrating from an m-dot (i.e. http://m.domain.com) to a responsive mobile friendly design, then it is best to do it before the mobile firs…
Google Officially Launches Job Postings Schema For Job Search Inclusion
As you all know, Google launched Google for jobs at Google I/O a couple months ago after being caught testing job search features in search before that.
We also spotted a new schema for job postings that Google didn’t comment on.
Well, now…
Google: Make Your Mobile & Desktop Pages Equivalent
So after Google suggested you should do your m-dot migration to responsive before the mobile first index, SEOs had some questions. They wanted more information on when this mobile-first index was launching because it is a big job to do this m-dot tran…
Google: Debug Fault Sitemaps With Server Logs
One webmaster asked Google’s John Mueller how does one know if Google is using their sitemap…
Google: We Won’t Launch The Mobile First Index On One Specific Day
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the mobile first index won’t have a specific launch date. Instead…
Google Feedback On SEO’s Google Directive Chart
Dawn Anderson, a really awesome SEO who thinks hard in most of what she does and says, posted an interesting chart…
Google: Maybe We’re Messing With The Algorithm Tracking Tools
Google has commented about the algorithm tracking tools before…
Google Site Move With New URL Can Take 3 Months; Not 2 Weeks
At SMX Advanced, Gary Illyes said that when you do a site move, so you get a brand new domain name and want to rebrand to that domain – it can take 3 months or so for Google to pick up on all the changes…
Trigger A Google Suggested Clip Video Answer
In April, we reported about a feature Google was testing named suggested clips where Google would show you a video with an answer but would jump to the section…
Father’s Day Logos & Themes From Google, Bing & Dogpile
Father’s Day here in New York is just about over and I am tired but I wanted to share the logos and themes from Google, Bing and Dogpile for the special day.
The image above is a screen shot from Bing’s home page. How strong and how cute…
Residential Businesses Do Not Hurt Your Google Web Search Rankings
Here is an SEO question I’ve never seen before, which is rare. Someone asked on Twitter if Google won’t rank a web site as well in search if the business is based at a home residential address…
Google Confirmed The Mobile Interstitial Penalty Did Roll Out
So January 2017 was the big mobile interstitial penalty from Google. On January 11, 2017, Google said it began rolling out but very few sites got hit, the ones that did got hit, got hit hard but the spread was minimal and sites that likely should have …
Google Opportunity: Produce Content In Non English Languages
Another tidbit at SMX Advanced from Gary Illyes of Google, something he said a few months ago is that there is a huge opportunity to rank for keywords in non-English languages. He said there is a lack of content and web pages for non-English languages….
Google: We Will Bring Voice Search Analytics To Webmasters
Despite Google saying they are not giving webmasters feature snippets analytics, Google did say they will give webmasters analytics on voice search queries related to their own content. Google has said this for over a year and even said it again a cou…
Was There A Small Google Algorithms Update This Week?
June 14th, or around that date, there may have been a small algorithm update in Google that webmasters somewhat took notice of…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Updates, Fred Actions, Search Analytics, Mobile Changes & More
This week in search, I covered a potential Google search algorithm update that I doubt Google will confirm as they said they will only confirm really big updates. Google said if you think you were hit by the Fred update…
Google: Status Quo With Google’s HTTPS Ranking Boost
So nothing has changes with the HTTPS ranking boost Google announced back in 2014. It still works the same way…
Google: Buying Links Is Like Throwing Money Out The Window
Gary Illyes from Google said at SMX Advanced on stage that buying links from sites that sell guest blog posts and the like is the same thing as throwing money out of the window…
Google: We Will Communicate About Major Search Algorithm Updates
One of the SEO industry’s gripes with Google is that they rarely confirm search algorithmic updates. We cover most Google updates here and very few of them actually get confirmed…